Assignment 10a - A Beautiful Mind

1) Provide a brief plot line.

"A Beautiful Mind" is a wonderful story about a brilliant man who has schizophrenia. He eventually finds out in adult hood that several key people in his life are actually not real. That a large part of his life has been completely imaginary. The movie does not reveal this to us until he finds out he has schizophrenia and this in turn gives us, the audience, the insight into what this condition is like.

2) What important messages are within the film that are important to teachers?

An important message that I got from the film is that many conditions and disabilities are hard to see from the prospective of others. As well that sometimes even those with the conditions or disabilities may go through many years of struggle never knowing that they had it. This was the case with me and my ADD/ADHD I went undiagnosed till mid high school; so this movies situation is one I can minorly relate to.
We as teachers need to not only learn to see from the prospectives of those with specific conditions but must also learn to see that not all people are always aware of their conditions and how they may differ from the norm.